Showing results for "Me" in Physical Illness & Disease

In this book, Anita shares how after fighting cancer for almost four years, her body began shutting down. As her organs failed, she entered into an extraordinary near-death experience where she would realize her inherent worth and the actual cause of her disease. Upon regaining consciousness...

In Incurable Me, a maverick physician brings transparency to some of medicine's most closely guarded secrets. As he establishes a link between commerce and medical research, K. P. Stoller also explains how to treat some of the most worrisome diseases and conditions afflicting humans today - including Lyme disease, brain trauma, dementia, and autism.

In Take Me Home from the Oscars, Schwab tells for the first time her story of living an amazing life in television while suffering from rheumatoid arthritis. Schwab recounts with incredible honesty how on the same day she produced and appeared in a major makeover segment for Live with Regis & Kelly in New York and then raced to Chicago to appear on Oprah!, all while balancing medications to ward off the relentless pain that plagued her on-camera and off.

Healed is the powerful, moving and deeply personal story of actor Manisha Koirala's battle against ovarian cancer. From her treatment in the US and the wonderful care provided by the oncologists there to how she rebuilt her life once she returned home, the book takes us on an emotional...

Can You Hear Me? is a podcast about hearing loss, how it affects people, how it’s treated, and how science is working to better understand its widespread effects. Through conversations about the current state of the field and interviews with the experts driving progress, host Rishi Pampati approaches hearing loss from various angles. Let it be clear: this isn’t just a podcast about ears.

Hörbuch-Version zu Das Monster danach von Nils Winkler und Gitta Meier. Das Hörbuch beschreibt die neuro-immunologische Multisystemerkrankung ME/CFS, das Chronische Fatigue Syndrom. Gesprochen vom Autor Nils Winkler, der selbst an ME/CFS erkrankt ist.

Dementia is devastating. Almost a million people are currently living with the disease in the UK alone and this is set to triple by 2050. With family members often providing care, navigating treatment can be overwhelming. But there is life after diagnosis. Still Me reframes the job of caring for someone with dementia as a partnership. Both you and your loved one deserve respect, support and the latest research to help you on your journey.

Remember Me? is a memoir about caring for a parent with dementia and the memories that resurface in the process. In her first book, Shobna Gulati sets out to reclaim her mother's past after her death, and in turn, discovers a huge amount about herself and their relationship. Remember Me? captures the powerful emotions that these memories hold to both Shobna and her mother; secrets they had collectively buried and also the concealment of her mother's condition. What ensues is a story of cultural assimilation, identity and familial shame.

En este libro se expone los aspectos más relevantes de la patología gastrointestinal y un planteamiento más acertado y cercano al público acerca de ese mal llamado "síndrome de colon irritable". Además se explica el concepto de integralidad del individuo como clave para entender desde...

Ally was at a breaking point when she woke up in a psych ward at the age of eighteen. She couldn't put a sentence together, let alone take a shower, eat a meal, or pick up a phone. What had gone wrong? In recent years, she had produced a feature film, a popular reality show for a major network...

De la mano de una gran prescriptora con muchos años de consulta en temas de nutrición, adelgazamiento y reparación digestiva, este audiolibro es una herramienta práctica y poderosa que resolverá de forma sencilla muchas dudas relacionadas con la alimentación y la salud.

For any woman who has experienced illness, chronic pain, or endometriosis comes an inspiring memoir advocating for recognition of women's health issues In the fall of 2010, Abby Norman's strong dancer's body dropped forty pounds and gray hairs began to sprout from her temples. She was repeatedly...

More than three years in the making, this book changes everything for Alzheimer’s couples and caregivers. When her husband, Mike, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, Rosalys Peel made a deal with him. Together, they vowed that they would manage Alzheimer’s in their own home and go right on living life as normally as possible for as long as possible. Over the next 10 years they found new ways to defy and surpass virtually all the typical Alzheimer’s statistics. Despite Mike’s illness they pursued their dreams, traveled the world, helped raise their granddaughter, and more.

Losing Me, While Losing You is a long-needed resource to those providing care for people living with dementia—and for those providing care to the caregivers. In this book, caregivers speak from their own experiences of caring for loved ones with dementia; they cover when they first noticed behavioural changes, what they did and how their roles changed when they received the diagnosis, how the experiences changed their perceptions of themselves, especially in cases where important ones no longer recognized them or their, often long-standing, relationships.

When the rug is pulled under from Nancy Laracy, a busy wife and mother of two who is diagnosed with a mixed connective tissue disease and fibromyalgia in her mid-thirties, she rebelliously adopts a baby red satin rabbit, Bunny Boy. So begins a deep, magical, and lifelong bond, where Bunny Boy and Nancy become inseparable companions in pain management.

Living with lung cancer isn't just about treatment plans and statistics—it's about the raw, real, messy truth of what it means to survive. No topic is off-limits. No question is too uncomfortable. No experience is too raw to share.

Your doctor told you it was breast cancer. So now what? You'll need plenty of essential advice - the kind that comes only from someone who's been there. In Just Get Me Through This!, Deborah A. Cohen and Robert M. Gelfand, MD, help you deal with all the ups and downs of the breast cancer experience. From the shock of diagnosis to getting through treatment to getting on with your life, they pack it with plenty of straight talk and practical tips.

In early 2011, Yolanda Hadid was struck by mysterious symptoms including brain fog, severe exhaustion, migraines, and more. Over the months and years that followed, she went from being an outspoken, multitasking, hands-on mother of three, reality TV star, and social butterfly to a woman who spent most of her time in bed. Yolanda was turned inside out by some of the country's top hospitals and doctors, but due to the lack of definitive diagnostic testing, she landed in a dark maze of conflicting medical opinions.

"Aufklären statt kleinreden" ist die Devise des neuen Buchs von Dr. Natalie Grams. Was nicht mehr geht: Arbeiten, einem Gespräch mit mehr als zwei Personen folgen, ohne Rollator aus dem Haus gehen, die Kinder versorgen, eine E- Mail tippen, Fahrrad oder Auto fahren, Nachrichten verfolgen, sich beeilen, ernst genommen werden. Was noch geht: Mit geschlossenen Augen im Bett liegen und ein Buch diktieren. Über Long COVID und ME/CFS - und warum wir alle lernen sollten, diese Krankheiten besser einzuschätzen.

Emmy award winning investigative journalist and medical professional Dr. Besser separates fact from fiction in this helpful healthcare guide that smashes harmful medical misconceptions. "Hey, Doc--Got a Minute?" No matter where Dr. Richard Besser goes, a day doesn't go by without someone...